Valerie Kushner

Valerie Kushner was an American POW/MIA activist during the Vietnam War. She had a daughter with Harold Kushner, who served in the US Army during the war and was captured in 1967. Valerie, who gave birth to a son just months after her husband was captured, co-founded the POW/MIA Families for Immediate Release, and she became one of very few POW/MIA activists not to support the Republican president Richard Nixon. In 1972, she seconded the endorsement of Democratic US Senator George McGovern for President, saying that she did so as a tribute to the Americans who were in North Vietnamese captivity.